10 Lot looked out and saw that the entire plain[a] of the Jordan(A) as far as Zoar(B) was well watered everywhere like the Lord’s garden(C) and the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:10 Lit circle; i.e., probably the large round plain where the Jordan River empties into the Dead Sea, also in v. 11

10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain(A) of the Jordan toward Zoar(B) was well watered, like the garden of the Lord,(C) like the land of Egypt.(D) (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom(E) and Gomorrah.)(F)

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10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

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For the Lord will comfort Zion;(A)
he will comfort all her waste places,
and he will make her wilderness like Eden,(B)
and her desert like the garden of the Lord.(C)
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and melodious song.

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The Lord will surely comfort(A) Zion(B)
    and will look with compassion on all her ruins;(C)
he will make her deserts like Eden,(D)
    her wastelands(E) like the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness(F) will be found in her,
    thanksgiving(G) and the sound of singing.

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For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

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13 You were in Eden,(A) the garden of God.
Every kind of precious stone covered you:
carnelian, topaz, and diamond,[a]
beryl, onyx, and jasper,
lapis lazuli, turquoise[b] and emerald.[c]
Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold;(B)
they were prepared on the day you were created.

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Footnotes

  1. 28:13 Hb obscure
  2. 28:13 Or malachite, or garnet
  3. 28:13 Or beryl

13 You were in Eden,(A)
    the garden of God;(B)
every precious stone(C) adorned you:
    carnelian, chrysolite and emerald,
    topaz, onyx and jasper,
    lapis lazuli, turquoise(D) and beryl.[a]
Your settings and mountings[b] were made of gold;
    on the day you were created they were prepared.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 28:13 The precise identification of some of these precious stones is uncertain.
  2. Ezekiel 28:13 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

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The cedars in God’s garden could not eclipse it;(A)
the pine trees couldn’t compare with its branches,
nor could the plane trees match its boughs.
No tree in the garden of God
could compare with it in beauty.

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The cedars(A) in the garden of God
    could not rival it,
nor could the junipers
    equal its boughs,
nor could the plane trees(B)
    compare with its branches—
no tree in the garden of God
    could match its beauty.(C)

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The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

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A fire devours in front of them,(A)
and behind them a flame blazes.
The land in front of them
is like the garden of Eden,(B)
but behind them,
it is like a desert wasteland;(C)
there is no escape from them.

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Before them fire(A) devours,
    behind them a flame blazes.
Before them the land is like the garden of Eden,(B)
    behind them, a desert waste(C)
    nothing escapes them.

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A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

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